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Enrolment methods

Enrolment methods provide a course tutor with different methods of getting students onto a course. In order to manage the enrolment methods that are active on your course you will need to go to the course page and from there look for Settings > Course administration > Users > Enrolment Methods. A table at the top of this page will show which methods are currently added to your course, and a drop down list at the bottom of the page can be used to add new enrolment methods.

Depending upon which enrolment methods are enabled for the site (by an administrator in Manage enrol plugins), some or all of the following are available within a course:

Manual enrolment

It allows the teacher of the course to manage individual or collective enrolment to their course themselves - for example: if a new student arrives to class unexpectedly with just a login to the site, they may be enrolled by the teacher into their course without any input from an administrator.

Self enrolment

This allows users to enrol themselves into a course, either directly or via an enrolment key ("course password") The teacher does not then have to manually add students.

More than once instance of the self enrolment method can be used so that when users enrol themselves they are assigned different roles e.g. certain users can be assigned the role of student and other users can be assigned the role of non-editing teacher

The self-enrolment method also allows for users to enrol themselves into groups by using a group enrolment key.

See Self enrolment for full details of how this can work in your course.

Guest access

This allows those with the guest role to view the contents of a course.

Users with the "guest role" may be visitors who do not have an account on your Moodle, or users who do have an account ("authenticated users") but who would just like to explore your course.

It is possible to add an enrolment key so that only those guest users you wish to grant access can enter the course

Entering a course with guest access doesn't allow a user to participate in any activities; they can only view information.

See Guest access for full details of how this can work in your course.

Cohort sync

A cohort is a set of users which has been added either to the site as a whole or to a particular category and which can then be made available in a course through the cohort-sync enrolment plugin.

Course meta link

This allows users who are in another course to be automatically enrolled into your course as well. An example might be if a Moodle site has a course for "Staff Only" and a course for "Moodle Help". If the "Staff Only" course is added to the "Moodle Help" course with the course meta link plugin, then every time a new member of staff joins the "Staff Only" course, they will automatically be enrolled in the "Moodle Help" course as well.

Teachers can only select from courses in which they are teachers when using this method.

To temporarily disable an enrolment method, click the show/hide icon (an eye) opposite it. (This ensures that the settings are remembered if the enrolment method is later re-enabled.)

To change the order in which the enrolment methods are checked, use the up/down arrows. If a user can enrol via more than one enrolment method, the one highest in the list wins. Example needed here please!